MANASSEH wastwelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years
in Jerusalem:

2 But did that which was evil in the
sight of the LORD, like unto the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD
had cast out before the children of Israel.

3 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah
his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves,
and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

4 Also he built altars in the house of the LORD,
whereof the LORD had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.

5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven
in the two courts of the house of the LORD.

6 And he caused his children to pass through
the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used
enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with
wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

7 And he set a carved image, the idol which
he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon
his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the
tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:

8 Neither will I any more remove the foot of
Israel from out of the land which I have appointed for your fathers; so that
they will take heed to do all that I have commanded them, according to the whole
law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses.

9 So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants
of Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the heathen, whom the LORD
had destroyed before the children of Israel.

10 And the LORD spake to Manasseh, and to his
people: but they would not hearken.

11 Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the
captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns,
and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.

12 And when he was in affliction, he besought
the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,

13 And prayed unto him: and he was entreated
of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into
his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he was God.

14 Now after this he built a wall without the
city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering
in at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great
height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah.

15 And he took away the strange gods, and the
idol out of the house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built in the
mount of the house of the LORD, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of
the city.

16 And he repaired the altar of the LORD, and
sacrificed thereon peace offerings and thank offerings, and commanded Judah
to serve the LORD God of Israel.

17 Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still
in the high places, yet unto the LORD their God only.

18 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and
his prayer unto his God, and the words of the seers that spake to him in the
name of the LORD God of Israel, behold, they are written in the book
of the kings of Israel.

19 His prayer also, and how God was entreated
of him, and all his sins, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built
high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold,
they are written among the sayings of the seers.

20 So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they
buried him in his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.

21 Amon was two and twenty years old
when he began to reign, and reigned two years in Jerusalem.

22 But he did that which was evil in
the sight of the LORD, as did Manasseh his father: for Amon sacrificed unto
all the carved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them;

23 And humbled not himself before the LORD,
as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and more.

24 And his servants conspired against him, and
slew him in his own house.

25 But the people of the land slew all them
that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah
his son king in his stead.